Earth's orbit

Earth's orbit is the path in which the Earth travels around the Sun. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 149.60million kilometers (92.96 million miles) and a complete orbit occurs every 365.256days (1siderealyear), during which time Earth travels 940million kilometers (584 million miles). Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167. Earth's orbital motion gives an apparent movement of the Sun with respect to other stars at a rate of about 1° per day (or a Sun or Moon diameter every 12hours) eastward as seen from Earth. Earth's orbital speed averages about 30km/s (108,000km/h; 67,000mph), which is fast enough to cover the planet's diameter in seven minutes and the distance to the Moon in four hours.

Viewed from a vantage point above the north poles of both the Sun and the Earth, the Earth would appear to revolve in a counterclockwise direction about the Sun. From the same vantage point, both the Earth and the Sun would appear to rotate in a counterclockwise direction about their respective axes.

Earth's orbit

Earth's orbit is the path in which the Earth travels around the Sun. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 149.60million kilometers (92.96 million miles) and a complete orbit occurs every 365.256days (1siderealyear), during which time Earth travels 940million kilometers (584 million miles). Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167. Earth's orbital motion gives an apparent movement of the Sun with respect to other stars at a rate of about 1° per day (or a Sun or Moon diameter every 12hours) eastward as seen from Earth. Earth's orbital speed averages about 30km/s (108,000km/h; 67,000mph), which is fast enough to cover the planet's diameter in seven minutes and the distance to the Moon in four hours.

Viewed from a vantage point above the north poles of both the Sun and the Earth, the Earth would appear to revolve in a counterclockwise direction about the Sun. From the same vantage point, both the Earth and the Sun would appear to rotate in a counterclockwise direction about their respective axes.

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The space agency flipped missions and decided that instead of orbitingEarth, Borman and his crew would fly to the moon to beat the Soviets and pave the way for the lunar landings to come ... “Even more worrisome than all of this,” Bridenstine noted earlier this month, Apollo 8 would be in orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day....

The space agency flipped missions and decided that instead of orbitingEarth, Borman and his crew would fly to the moon to beat the Soviets and pave the way for the lunar landings to come ... "Even more worrisome than all of this," Bridenstine noted earlier this month, Apollo 8 would be in orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day....

The space agency flipped missions and decided that instead of orbitingEarth, Borman and his crew would fly to the moon to beat the Soviets and pave the way for the lunar landings to come ... "Even more worrisome than all of this," Bridenstine noted earlier this month, Apollo 8 would be in orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day....

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